2015.02.23

News Headlines - 23 February 2015

Two former foreign secretaries, Labour’s Jack Straw and the Conservatives’ Sir Malcolm Rifkind, reportedly suggested a fee of at least ￡5,000 a day for services including political access for a fictitious Chinese company created by journalists in an undercover sting.

But newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon’s work has been tied to funding he received from corporate interests. He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.